(i.e. all the dudes who are homebrewing as their main hobby

I love making booze, I think everyone should at least have some wine going on. It does have several survival uses like baking, keeping a yeast strand going for bread and more booze, and disinfecting (with distillation), and of course a ... morale boost.

I mean, come on, if you meet a lady in the Wasteland, where I assume the dating pool is going to be dismal, a little wine can help seal the deal. And you may need some liquid courage considering personal hygiene will be an issue. She might smell like the monkey enclosure at the zoo, but it has probably been a while, and all the even moderately pretty girls became sex slaves pretty quickly after civilization collapsed.